Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

11/12/2021

Festival Reviews

River of Desire

by Patricia Boero | Nov 24, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, Tallinn

Jealousy, betrayal and revenge weave through Sergio Machado’s sultry, fatalistic melodrama set in the Amazon, where a woman becomes the object of desire of three passionate brothers.

Belfast

by Stephen Dalton | Mar 28, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, London, Red Sea, Tallinn, Toronto

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED OCT. 13, 2021 Kenneth Branagh won the Academy Award for best original screenplay for this warm, funny, visually sumptuous autobiographical drama.

Drive My Car

by Deborah Young | Jan 13, 2022 | Antalya, Buenos Aires, Busan, Cannes, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Mar del Plat, Oscar shortlist, Rotterdam, San Sebastian, Tallinn, Thessaloniki, Toronto

Winner of the Academy Award for best international feature, Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘Drive My Car’ is the story of how love survives death in a long, measured, ultimately mesmerizing examination of the human soul.

The List of Those Who Love Me

by Stephen Dalton | Dec 10, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Turkish director Emre Erdo?du’s compelling social drama The List of Those Who Love Me highlights hidden tensions among Istanbul’s arty celebrity set.

Alice, Through the Looking: À la recherche d’un lapin perdu

by Stephen Dalton | Dec 6, 2021 | Festivals, Spotlight, Tallinn

Director Adam Donen’s messy but ambitious debut feature Alice, Through the Looking brings together Lewis Carroll, Jean-Luc Godard and Monty Python in a hellish post-Brexit London.

Immersion

by Stephen Dalton | Dec 5, 2021 | Festivals, Spotlight, Tallinn

A Chilean family sail into stormy waters in director Nicolás Postiglione’s tense, gripping, politically charged suspense thriller Immersion.

Dear Thomas

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 28, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Director Andreas Kleinert’s prize-winning Cold War bio-drama Dear Thomas pays compelling but indulgent tribute to East German literary outlaw Thomas Brasch.

When Pomegranates Howl

by Deborah Young | Nov 24, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

With sensitivity and devastating last-scene irony, filmmaker and poet Granaz Moussavi cinematically embeds the viewer in children’s lives in the heart of war-torn Kabul, in Australia’s Oscar hopeful.

Nr. 10

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 24, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam takes darkly comic gloom to a new level with his audaciously weird tenth film, Nr. 10.

No Looking Back

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 23, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Russian director Kyrill Sokolov’s high-octane action comedy No Looking Back involves three generations of women from the same dysfunctional family.

Other Cannibals

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 21, 2021 | Festivals, Tallinn

Debut feature director Francesco Sossai’s deadpan cannibalism comedy is charming, original and surprisingly humane.

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